Scotland Food & Drink is the industry leadership organisation tasked with driving responsible growth for the sector and building Scotland’s global reputation as a Land of Food and Drink. We are a collaborative partnership of the key industry organisations and public sector agencies working in the sector in Scotland and we are a membership organisation.
Any personal data provided by you to us will be held and processed in accordance with the data protection principles set out in the General Data Protection Regulations for the purposes of meeting the legitimate interests of Scotland Food & Drink (SF&D) and adhering to the rights of the individual.
This Privacy Policy explains our data processing practices. If you have any queries concerning your personal information or any questions on our use of the information, please contact:
At Scotland Food & Drink, we are committed to protecting the privacy of our customers and website visitors. Our relationship with you is valuable and we understand the importance you place on the privacy and security of information which personally identifies you.
In that respect, we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy and our information gathering and dissemination practices.
The information we hold on your business is:
We hold personally identifiable information if you are an employee of a business who is a current, previous or prospect member of Scotland Food & Drink, or if you have attended an event hosted by Scotland Food & Drink. The information we hold on you is:
SF&D provides a variety of online offerings including information about our products and services, business information and publicity.
We collect personally identifiable information when you join as a member, register with us to attend our events or when you use our services. We ask you for personal data only when it is needed to provide goods or services you have enquired about or asked us to provide or to respond to your request for information. You do not need to provide us with personal data simply to browse our site.
SF&D uses this information in the following ways:
If you would like to change your preferences, please contact us via info@foodanddrink.scot
We hold this information under the lawful basis for processing of:
We store your information on our secure Customer Relationship Manager system.
We store your information within Sage for the purposes of invoicing you (where applicable).
We take measures to ensure you data is secure and have taken steps to ensure our cyber security complies with GDPR regulations.
Scotland Food & Drink will only pass your information on to a third party where they are subcontracted to us to deliver part of a service you have signed. These subcontractors do not store your information and only use it for the purposes of fulfilling the service. More information on this will be supplied at the point of booking on to any of our events so you have full transparency of how your information is being used and why.
Scotland Food & Drink will not share your information with any other company or organisation without your consent.
If at any time you would like to know what information we hold on you please email us at info@foodanddrink.scot and in line with GDPR legislation we will provide you this information for free within 72 hours.
If you believe that we hold inaccurate information on you and you would like us to amend this then please email us at info@foodanddrink.scot and we will make any appropriate rectifications in line with GDPR legislation immediately.
You have the right to request that we delete any contact information on you. If you would like to request this, then please email info@foodanddrink.scot
Please note: Scotland Food & Drink will retain certain information where we believe this is a legitimate business interest.
If you do not want to have contact from us again then please email us at info@foodanddrink.scot and we will ensure that you are not contacted again in line with best practice under the GDPR legislation.
Scotland Food & Drink adopts a privacy by design approach to all of its process and procedural development to ensure that the privacy of individuals data is considered from the outset.
If you no longer wish to receive information from Scotland Food & Drink, simply let us know by filling in this form.
By requesting this, we won’t contact you about business opportunities, food and drink industry news or events and any other service we can provide.